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The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Stephen Fry Reads Nick Cave’s Stirring Letter About ChatGPT and Human Creativity: “We Are Fighting for the Very Soul of the World”

Iphone manufacture outsourced to Chinese sweatshops. Rare earth extraction and processing outsourced to China. What else? Capitalist greed, not being screwed my other nation states. But Trumpistan knows best!

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Here is the top comment on this article: “You are advising responsible honest people who have worked hard, saved all their lives… to scale down their retirement dreams because a one person has decided to destroy the US economy. Why not write an article about how to get rid of the real problem?”

Love the name www.crossedanchors.co.uk/product/swee...

"Clues that you might not be trying hard enough You usually succeed You rarely feel like an imposter You already know what you need to know You’re confident it’s going to work" Seth Godin HT Mark Morley-Fletcher

Blue Rondo or Take Five?

A very satisfactory turntable upgrade. Rega have hit the sweetspot with the P3 RS.

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One of the great choons last night at Jazz On The Green. Another was by mcGriff and originals by Martin Jenkins. I didnt spot any Smith, deFrancesco or Dennerlein, but a couple of bars made me think of MMW gooves. Best night for ages! youtu.be/D-XuKGbNAMw?...

Rodigan is an absolute legend. His autobiography is a good read too. bassculture.substack.com/p/david-rodi...

The daily battle against big music

So the basic proposal, if I’m following correctly, is to wrench the whole American consumer economy back to Gilded Age protectionism by means of Executive fiat, right now, tonight, while Congress tries to relieve the tax burden on some rich people but everyone else goes on paying income taxes too.

Such a perfect pop song. Two great siingers and a cool groove youtube.com/watch?v=3-f4...

To improve efficiency we are replacing due process with "Just trust me bro"

EFF’s @legind.bsky.social spoke with @lifehackerofficial.bsky.social about the best browsers for protecting privacy, and while opinions may vary, there’s agreement on one thing: It ain’t Chrome.

Nice overview of metaframeworks by @fydor metaframe.works/comparison/

Adolescence. Will these dangerous teenage boys all end up in cells? The new Private Eye is out now

Such an excellent album. Jazz is so often a dish best served live arqmusic1.bandcamp.com/album/sema4

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New new GCSE in natural history. questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

BCI getting good! www.sciencealert.com/womans-brain...

Today brings 84 new features in Safari 18.4! • Declarative Web Push • Screen Wake Lock API for Home Screen Web Apps • Viewport presets in Responsive Design Mode • Ogg Opus & Vorbis • Image Capture API • WebM support in MediaRecorder • `view-transition-name: match-element` webkit.org/blog/16574/w...

Omar with his "horizontal dance" masterpiece youtube.com/watch?v=7pqo...

I miss the monthly batch of email list reminder emails

The Kenny Wheeler Big Band & Friends Vol.2 has gone straight in at #2 on the Bandcamp Jazz chart! A huge thanks to everyone who has pre-ordered so far! britishprogressivejazz.com/album/the-ke... #Musicsky #Jazzsky

Indie Microblogging by Manton Reece is a free online book.

AI fatigue is a thing!! www.zdnet.com/article/4-re...

Ever wanted to get close to a piece of rock history? Now's your chance! Find out how in #UpbeatOnline as the RCM Museum announces its new exhibition, Kurt Cobain Unplugged, featuring Cobain’s Martin D-18E guitar from Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance. bit.ly/RCMGuitarGre... #KurtCobain #Nirvana

That'll do nicely

If you didn’t say what time it *really* was when you woke up this morning (“no wonder I’m so tired”) then you’re doing the first Monday after the clocks go forward wrong.

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